Flushing Meadows

This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, custard Hahnemühle Ingres mouldmade paper from Germany, sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that dates back at least to the Ancient Copts.  It allows the book to lay open easily to any page.

 This book’s endbands are blue and white cotton, and its bookmark is goatskin.  Its spine is covered split French goatskin, and its boards are wrapped in a 1946 map of the United States.

 Treasure binding began with monks in the 6^th Century who would encrust volumes with jewels. During the Renaissance, there was a resurgence in treasure binding. This is a contemporary revival of the treasure binding in which a lucky charm has been embedded in the cover of this book.  

 The talisman in this book is a souvenir coin from the 1939 New York World’s Fair, the event at which air conditioning, nylon stockings, and color camera film debuted.  At the RCA pavilion, television was first shown to a mass audience.  Momentous, heady days.

This book is approximately 6.5 x 9.5” with a few more than 150 blank pages.